Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-02
General 11eps.
DOMESTIC.

W" II, CiiiOs 'JuhN'"y hiOihi
Ocean steamships arriving at New
York report having met terrible gales.
Two jockeys were fatally injured in
the Saratoga races Monday by the falling
of their horses.
Gross frauds by Democratic officials of
Illinois are charged, and it is said many
thousands have been Incorporated.
1t is stated that United States Minister
Lothrop is on his way home from st.
Petersburg, and that he intends to re-
sign.
The Standard Oil company is to have
a fleet of steamships built to carry oil
in tanks along the coast and across the
ocean.
Columbus, S. c., had a couple of earth
quake shocks Saturday, and a slight
shock of earthquake was felt at Augusta,
Ga, about 10 80 Sunday night.
Rev. DR.. Parker, the eminent London
clergyman, who is to deliver eulogy on
the late Henry Ward Beecher in Brook
Ign, arrived at New York Saturday.
Charles Alexander, young mechanic
of Suspension Bridge, successfully rode
through the Whirlpool rapids at Niagara
Sunday in a lifeboat constructed by him
self.
\ row in a colored church at Decatur.
Ga, Saturday, ended in riot, in which
Town Marshal Hunt and an unknown
negro were shot dead. Tom Shivers.
white, was MORALLY wounded.
Hon. J. W. Patterson, State superin-
tendent of public education in New
Hampshire, in his annual report APP
proves of the operation of the new school
law and the free textbook system.
Evidence is appearing tending to show
that the plan to wreck train at Elm
great railroad strike last year, was sane
toned by the officers of the Knights of
| Labor.
The directors of the Piedmont exposi-
ton. to be held at Atlanta, beginning
October Is. have invited the veteran as
sociations of the Northwest to revisit the
scenes of memorable battles in company
with veteran Confederates.
A procession of 5000 Grand Army vet
Grams, who included eX-President Hayes.
Gov, Foraker of Ohio and other promi-
nent men, refused to pass beneath BAN
ner portrait of President Cleveland at
Wheeling, West Virginia, Friday.
Some two hundred cattle have been
killed in Delaware county, n. y, by
order of State officers to eXtermlnate
pleuro-pneumonia. Inspector Mclean of
the Bureau of Animal Industry at WASH
ington says that the New York stock
yards are hotbeds of pleuro-pneumonia,
and that the disease can only be extirpa-
ted by quarantining all the cattle in the
United States. Inspector W. Dimond
says the disease cannot be stamped out
unless Congress appropriates large sum
of money for that purpose.
The American ship Ropes, 1900 tons
burthen, the largest ship that ever sailed
into Puget sound, arrived in Tacoma,
W. T.. Sunday, being 20 days from Yok-
ohama. with 377l tons of tea and other
merchandise for Chicago, Boston and
Philadelphia merchants. The ship Alex
ander Gibson is due in few days from
the same port. The arrival of the Ropes
is the beginning of direct trade between
Yokohama and Tacoma. The cargo goes
/ 1, g t1,.N t1,n,.,
Pacific railway. The value of the cargo
of the ship Ropes is Sl.500, 900.
Robert Bonner drove "Maud s." Satur-
day afternoon on the three-quarter mile
track on his farm at Tarrytown, y. Y,
the fastest mile that has ever been made
to a wagon. The first half was made in
the mile in :l34. Mr.. Bonner urged the
mare only on the last half. when she
made the marvellous time of :044 to
wagon on three-quarter track. Mr..
Bonner weighs 30 pounds over the regu-
lation weight. He says the world has
never seen Maud SIS" equal and that
she is better mare today than she ever
was before.
The Kansas City Times publishes an
swers received TO inquiries sent out
through Kansas and Missouri as to pres
idential preferences. In Missouri 27O
answers from Democrats were received.
OF these 25l were for Cleveland, three
for Thurman, one for Wade Hampton
and the rest scattering. The Republic
cans sent 26l answers, of which l25 were
for Blaine, II for Sherman. IL for Lin
coin and the rest scattering. In Kansas,
326 Democrats answered as follows {:
Cleveland 306, Thurman 1, Hill 6, re-
mainder scattering. The Republicans
sent 302 answers, of which Isl were for
Blaine, Sc for sherman, Al for Lincoln,
and thp rest scattering,